She once holds good feelings on Wickham, considering him to be the most agreeable man she has ever met. But meanwhile, she thinks it is too imprudent to fall in love with him. She once says to her aunt, Mrs. Gardiner,
“I will take care of myself, and of Mr. Wickham too. He shall not be in love with me, if I can prevent it.”(19)
So when Wickham gets engaged with Miss King for her ten-thousand-pound property, she does not feel a little bit sad but free. Her two younger sisters, Kitty and Lydia are resentful about him, but she thinks
“They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain.”(20)
When Mrs. Gardiner expresses her idea about Wickham’s desertion later, Elizabeth says,
“Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?”(21)
Here, Austen brings up a complicated problem for discussion through Elizabeth — How shall we quantify the ratio between money and love in a marriage? Elizabeth could not accept Collins because there could be no possibility of love between them, nor Wickham since he has no property. (Though Wickham is short of not only money but also moral, she does not know it until the latter part of the story.) Darcy’s pride and her prejudice against him makes her refuse his first offer of marriage, but later on, she feels regretful for her own bias and rashness. There is a faint pity in her painful self-condemn and complex feelings. When she sees Darcy’s Pemberley Park, her feeling changes,
“She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.” And at that moment, “She felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!”(22)
參考答案:她曾在Wickham着持好感,考虑到他是最合意男子她曾有过. 但同时,她认为太轻率地爱上他. 她曾经给姑姑说,加德纳夫人,"我会照顾自己,李太Wickham着. 他不会爱上我, 如果我能阻止它. "(19)Wickham着所以当她得到国王同吴一万磅财产 她并不感到有点伤心,但免费. 两个妹妹、小猫和Lydia产生不满他, 但她认为:"他们都是年轻的人情世故, 而尚未开放的侮辱人坚信美男要有所倚靠以及平原. "(20)当加德纳太太表示,她知道Wickham着的遗弃后 伊丽莎白说:"祈祷,我亲爱的姑姑,分别在婚姻事务 雇佣兵之间的谨慎动机? 何方酌完,贪欲开始? "(21)这里, 奥斯丁带出一个复杂的问题进行讨论,通过伊丽莎白-怎样衡量金钱与爱情的比例结婚? 柯林斯伊丽莎白无法接受的可能性,因为不可能有爱情关系, 也由于他没有财产Wickham着. (Wickham着虽然是短暂的,而且不仅是道义上的钱, 她不知道,直到故事的后半部分). 达西的傲慢与偏见,她拒绝了他让她先提供结婚 但后来,她感到遗憾,为自己的偏见躁. 可惜她有一个微弱的痛苦的自我谴责和复杂心情. 当她看到达西pemberley公园,她感觉变化 "她从没见过的地方做更多的性质、澳 住宅自然美那里已经盖过了这么少尴尬品味. "那一刻, 她认为可能是情妇的pemberley一件! "(22)
